“Where the Water meets the Land” – Raiders launch 2024 Indigenous Jersey
Canberra Raiders Indigenous stars Sebastian Kris, Xavier Savage, Hohepa Puru and Tommaya Kelly-Sines spent time at the Murrumbidgee River last week to help launch the Raiders 2024 Indigenous jersey.
The theme of this year’s jersey is “Where the water meets the land,” with the jersey designed by Birpai and Worimi woman Kulka Fahey.
Ms Fahey was selected as the artist for this year’s jersey following submissions from a wide variety of Indigenous artists from across Australia, with her concept and design featuring on the jersey in consultation with the club's NRL Indigenous playing group.
Finchy wrote: ↑April 29, 2024, 9:50 am
Please no more special jerseys. Have we ever won in an indigenous strip?
It's all a marketing strategy.
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
Well I think it looks fantastic. Congratulations to the artist, the club and the players that spent time promoting it. I hope the team does it proud when they wear it.
That jersey is garbage and people shouldn't be afraid to say it.
The navy sleeves and side panels are jarring, they don't flow with the rest of the design at all. I don't care if they're the players totem animals, it's obvious that they were tacked onto the original design and randomly festooning anatomically accurate silhouettes of animals across an indigenous design just makes that stick out. If you must have the animals in there then commission a piece that incorporates them into the original design or include them more subtly, even then having animals like crocodiles and dugongs that have no connection to Canberra or the region on a jersey that's meant to represent this region is just dumb.
The sad thing is that the original piece is pretty cool and well suited to being used on a jersey. Replace the navy with green, jettison the animals, continue the artwork onto the shoulders vertically, and discuss removing red from the design with the artist and it'd be a thing of beauty. Convince Toyota to remove the box around the sponsor and make their wordmark white and it'd be the best Indigenous jersey the Raiders have ever had.
It's been quite a while since the Raiders produced a decent new jersey design, it kind of sucks.
Finchy wrote: ↑April 29, 2024, 9:50 am
Please no more special jerseys. Have we ever won in an indigenous strip?
It's all a marketing strategy.
Like Anzac round
Like all of them.
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
Finchy wrote: ↑April 29, 2024, 9:50 am
Please no more special jerseys. Have we ever won in an indigenous strip?
It's all a marketing strategy.
Like Anzac round
Like all of them.
You're not a fan of ANZAC round, dubs?
This is a classic strawman.
I am a fan of celebrating women, aboriginals, and ANZACs. But do we need to create a new jersey every time? (look at Souths ANZAC jersey, they looked like NQ).
Just a personal perspective.
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
I appreciate the commemorative elements of the pre-game, that's always a highlight of the event, but I don't get the jersey thing. It seems entirely unnecessary to me.
I am a fan of celebrating women, aboriginals, and ANZACs. But do we need to create a new jersey every time? (look at Souths ANZAC jersey, they looked like NQ).
Just a personal perspective.
I’d say he clearly trolling you Dubs. Trying to repeat a made up claim about you enough that it becomes fact. Classic bullying behaviour, but most people see through it.
Dr Zaius wrote: ↑April 29, 2024, 8:14 pm
Like Anzac round
Like all of them.
You're not a fan of ANZAC round, dubs?
This is a classic strawman.
I am a fan of celebrating women, aboriginals, and ANZACs. But do we need to create a new jersey every time? (look at Souths ANZAC jersey, they looked like NQ).
Just a personal perspective.
I’d say he clearly trolling you Dubs. Trying to repeat a made up claim about you enough that it becomes fact. Classic bullying behaviour, but most people see through it.
Voltaire said that the more stupidity is repeated, the more it gains the appearance of wisdom.
It's a real problem. But, thankfully, I think you are right.
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
Billy Walker wrote: ↑April 30, 2024, 12:26 pm
I’d say he clearly trolling you Dubs. Trying to repeat a made up claim about you enough that it becomes fact. Classic bullying behaviour, but most people see through it.
Voltaire said that the more stupidity is repeated, the more it gains the appearance of wisdom.
It's a real problem. But, thankfully, I think you are right.
Hahaha the irony of this back and forth right here is not lost on "most people", I'm sure.
Dusty wrote: ↑April 30, 2024, 1:42 pm
Re: ANZAC Jersey, I'd be happy with our normal strip (home or away) with a poppy above the emblem.
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This is kind of where I am at.
Why not just run some print across the jersey, like they do for SOO and when Les McIntyre passed away?
The spiral of silence refers to the idea that when people fail to speak, the price of speaking rises. As the price to speak rises, still fewer speak out, which further causes the price to rise, so that fewer people yet will speak out, until a whole culture or nation is silenced. This is what happened in Germany.
If you do not speak, you are not being neutral, but are contributing to the success of the thing you refuse to name and condemn.
